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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1922
Page
11
Advice on beauty for holiday cheer focuses on eyelashes and brows. Tips include nourishing the roots, trimming split ends carefully, using white Vaseline nightly, and selecting a narrow eyelash brush to coax lashes to curl. Regular brushing shapes brows to follow the eye line.
Dotty wishes for many gifts writes to Santa but learns a Dutch Christmas story. Gretchen and Hans explain St Nicholas visits on December fifth with wooden shoes and a surprise. The girls exchange simple gifts, hunt stockings, sing, and realize happiness comes from gratitude.
Recipe roundup by Jeannette Young Norton presents five traditional cakes for holiday parties. It covers Butter Fruit Cake Marble Cake Sand Cake Colorful Cake and includes steps, ingredients such as butter sugar flour and spices, baking times from 35 minutes to three hours, and notes on frostings and finishes.
An engineer touts American capital in China for electric projects noting 700 cities with 35,000 residents and lack of electric lights. Candles are government supervised in 57 factories as lamp shops stock kerosene lamps for celebrations and daily need. In Akron, Albert Richards, 50, denied parole after a 1926 elderberry shooting dispute. He faced a domestic abuse hearing under Judge E D Fritch with a 30 day sentence planned.
A fashion show highlighted a black broadcloth suit featuring a box jacket. Details include gun metal bullet buttons, black soutache braid, soft black caracal collar and cuffs, and silver braid edging the tricorne trim.
In Paris on December 2 three English girls won the annual French typewriting competition. Miss Woodward took first prize for speed, followed by Miss Mitchell and Miss Aldred. In the French national contest, Monsieur Gavrin achieved 10,000 strokes in 20 minutes, with Mademoiselle Pinu, secretary to Albert Thomas, placing second.
Mrs. Margaret E. Morey of New York City announces the engagement of her daughter Hilda Marie Morey to Clifford Tetlow Appleton of Curtis Avenue Bridgeport. Morey is a former Bridgeport public schools dental hygienist now leading a dental clinic at a New York City boys club. Appleton is a sales engineer active in local civic organizations.
Adele Garrison wrestles with Dicky Foster's feelings for Claire Foster amid marital strain and jealousy. Miss Cargill arrives to smooth social tensions as plans to return to New York with Miss Foster unfold tomorrow after a dining room confrontation.
Mr and Mrs Walter B Lashar host a dance this evening at their Fairfield home for the school set in honor of Walter Jr and William guests include Betty Neithercut Elizabeth Pullman Alice Pullman Elizabeth Chapin Clara Ham Helen Ellis Ruth Slosson Jean Houghton Mabel Jennings Marion Macfarlane Elizabeth Sargent Elizabeth Fitzgibbons Adele Pyle Barbara Senior Esther Hindle Emmy Lou Havens Louise Haviland Virginia Anderson Muriel Read Frances Bullard Elizabeth Wolfe Louise Jenkins Marguerite Shannon Henmi sta Kent Henrietta Brown Agnes Warner Phyllis Ruth Foster Allison Hale Katherine Alison Chrystine Alison Travis Theodosia Hawley Susan Weeks Bernice Cortright Estelle Cortright Robert Newman Cuyler Shaw Howard Seeley Marshall Lovegrove Philip Sherman John Bullard Fuller Leeds Sheldon Foster D Fairchild Wheeler Jr Paul Haviland Robert Ellis Jack Carbrey John Alison Lee Delamater Moreau Lawson Johnson Stoddard Goodwin Ward Jarvis Jennings Austin Jennings John Jennings Austin Roche Samuel Hawley Benton Anderson John Jennings Elwood Stanley Charles DeWolfe Richard Miller William R Webster Jr Dudley Skinner Edward Fves Wadsworth Ives Wheeler Parrott Wheeler Peck Robert Holcomb Gerard Kirk Donald Baird John Anderson Frank Marsh James Cummings William Hawley Wranglin Cogill William Narainors Cincinnati Dec 27 The police of Dayton C are convinced there is monkey business in Cincinnati They telegraphed to the local authorities to watch for a monkey named Jocko who was stolen from his owner in the Gem
Winifred Black writes about six teens from a country town who run away to the city seeking glamour and adventure. They return to a quiet Christmas supper with family, reflecting on home, self, and the pull of the world beyond.
A late teen reader asks if parents should control friendships with a young man, while other letters offer blunt guidance on love, trust, and outcomes. The column features responses from Sue Bird and Annie Laurie advising dialogue, independence, and self-respect.
Mr and Mrs Aaron H Ketchem marked their 50th wedding anniversary at home on Christmas night at 18 Wheeler Avenue with about 100 guests. A poet and Trinity church chorus joined the celebration, sharing toasts, a supper, gifts, and carols.
Christmas greens and southern smilax are planned for decorating the Brookline Country Club dance hosted by the Service Club on Thursday evening. Mrs H Livingstone Morehouse chairs the bridge committee with several assistants. Mrs Philo Calhoun heads the dance committee aided by other members. Bolton Cipriano's orchestra will play for the dance to raise funds for the club's philanthropy, which supported two poor families during Christmas. Patronesses include numerous society names.
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